Debian bug report logs - #1255, boring messages

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Subject: Bug#1255: Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and ALEX FS!
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Package: findutils
Version: 4.1-2

The cron.daily scripts included in that package does not check
wether AFS or ALEX are installed on the host. Thus the updatedb
utility will do a truly _GLOBAL_ find to update the database.

As a fix to this add the --prunepath="/afs /alex" option by default.
I would also like to hint that the install script should add the /home
branch and the /var/spool/mail directory because of privacy issues.

I am using 0.93R5 together with AFS3.3, NIS/AMD and Monsanto NQS.
The look-and-feel is identical with all our Unix systems using X11R6 and
OSF Motif 1.x

Cheers,
  Dominik
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>
> Package: findutils
> Version: 4.1-2
>
> The cron.daily scripts included in that package does not check
> wether AFS or ALEX are installed on the host. Thus the updatedb
> utility will do a truly _GLOBAL_ find to update the database.
>
> As a fix to this add the --prunepath="/afs /alex" option by default.
> I would also like to hint that the install script should add the /home
> branch and the /var/spool/mail directory because of privacy issues.

Seeing it's run as nobody by default I don't see how there is a
privacy issue, no one can read your mail just by knowing the filename
in /var/spool/mail unless someone has changed the permissions of
the users mail spool file. Knowing where someone's mail spool file
isn't a threat to someone's privacy imo :)

/home is also quite safe if the users have their permissions set
correctly.

Andrew

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Andrew Howell				               andrew@it.com.au
Perth, Western Australia		      howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au

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> A sensible sysadmin will always assume that they have not ... ;-)

I tend to believe users' files are their own problem. Also some users
have public directories where they have files which they like other
people to access and I think they should be included in the database.

Andrew

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From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: Dominik Kubla <Dominik.Kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE>, debian-bugs@pixar.com
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Dominik Kubla writes:
> The cron.daily scripts included in that package does not check
> wether AFS or ALEX are installed on the host. Thus the updatedb
> utility will do a truly _GLOBAL_ find to update the database.
>
> As a fix to this add the --prunepath="/afs /alex" option by default.
> I would also like to hint that the install script should add the /home
> branch and the /var/spool/mail directory because of privacy issues.

Can you tell me what the fstype of Alex and AFS filesystems are ?
`alex' and `afs' ?

If alex filesystems are just NFS I suppose I shall have to add them to
the cron package's `checksecurity' script's exclusion list by `common
mount point'.

Perhaps we need a general list of `exclude this fstype and that
directory from any recursive searches' config file, as part of the
cron package ?

That way it will be less of a problem when we miss one out, and the
modifications to the list won't be mixed up with general changes to
the checksecurity script or the various cron.daily scripts.

Ian.

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